Parents who carry the gene for sickle cell anemia can now ensure that their children will be free of the disease by using test-tube fertilization and having the embryos genetically analyzed before ...

Cambridge physiologist Dr. Robert Edwards holding the world's first test tube baby Louise Joy Brown ; Louise Joy Brown attends "Joy" Headline Gala during the 68th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal ...

The scientific father of the first "test-tube" baby won a Nobel Prize in Medicine this week for revolutionary work that toppled the natural order of things by making it possible to produce babies in ...

A worrisome national surge in multiple births linked to test-tube technology is easing, largely because doctors are implanting fewer embryos during each attempt to make a woman pregnant, a study ...

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The birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” – a child who was conceived outside a woman’s body – sent waves of joy and wonder around the world yesterday as scientists hailed it as a momentous ...

Heather Tilton and her brother, Todd Tilton II, are ordinary siblings with an extraordinary message. The first twins born in America through in vitro fertilization, they want people to know that their ...

A worrisome national surge in multiple births linked to test-tube technology is easing, largely because doctors are implanting fewer embryos during each attempt to make a woman pregnant, a study ...

Illinois and four other states performed nearly half the approximately 100,000 laboratory-assisted fertility procedures in the U.S. in 2000, federal health officials reported Thursday. Assisted ...